This is what you should do when you miss attending your close friend’s wedding. Receive them at Train station in the wee hours when they return after marriage. Just not receive, get two garlands and bunch of flowers. Wish them, make them exchange garlands in the thick of the station. Recreate the feel of the [...]
September 19, 2009
I had uninstalled Google Chrome, probably because of the sluggish previous release. But I have installed it again to give another try. The best thing I like about this browser is the address bar. It is a URL holder + your search bar. Most of my search in the google search engine ends up in reading [...]
November 11, 2007
Have some free time at hand ?Want to do some charity ?but do not want to get up and go out of the comfort of your chair ? This is what you can do. Challenge your vocab with freerice.comVisit the site to know how playing the vocabulary game can be a work of charity ? [...]
October 26, 2007
We play some 5 TT matches a day. Results of the matches are published the following day in a visual. Winners look like this. Isnt this a nice idea to to superimpose the winners with a crown ? Giving them a bit of high and yet make them look funny.
August 4, 2007
Am running a talk-format in office for over a month now. It’s nicked as 10-20-30, invented by Guy Kawasaki. I have tweaked a bit and applied at our office. This is the email message footer which goes out for that talk-invitation.___________________________________________________10-20-30That is for 10 slides, 20 mins and 30 people.Internal Knowledge Sharing Sessions. It’s open [...]
July 13, 2007
IP addressing and subnetting. Any number of times you read and try to apply, the basics evaporate in no time. Subnetting is little tricky and hence needs working through it to stick in the head. Let me make an attempt to give you some help in grasping the concept. Get this one right. Subnetting is [...]
July 8, 2007
What is an art ?I have asked this question myself several times. It always been abstract,vague and undefined in my mind. I think I found some answer to such and similar questions in the book I have started reading. The Emerging Mind by Vijaynur Ramachandran. The chapter Artful brain, talks about the artistic universals. Obviously, [...]
June 27, 2007
I pulled out a recipe from one of my old collection this evening for the dinner. MavinKayi Chitranna ( Masla Rice out of raw mango…?! ) Had the rice been little fluffy, it would’ve been more delicious. Print the recipe to try out. Translators. Any one around ?!
June 27, 2007
If humans never had the capability to speak, know what would have happened ? - I think Video Telephony would have been the first ever invention and voice telephony would have never seen the light of the day. - this would have been a place with only video-ipods ! - Each one of us would [...]
June 15, 2007
This week has been the week of Audio Books. I am ‘reading’ these…Seven habits of Highly Effective people – Stephen CoveyCatching the Big Fish – by David Lynch, (Culty Film-maker) The download of “Brief History of Time” is underway. The one which I am most eagerly waiting to hear is the Scott Adams’ Joy of [...]
April 20, 2007
Over the weekend I was at Landmark book store to pick up some intro book on yoga.Either it’s too expensive, the content isn’t well put or they are boring.I must have browsed 30-40 books and finally to buy none. Our yoga trainer gave away this two pager hand-outs y’day. Look at the pictures. She drew [...]
April 4, 2007
You will call this stupidity…but that’s my thinking style at times. Why cars are short and buses are tall….?! My answer is:In cars people sit and travel. That’s why it’s short. You will say….same is true in buses. People sit and travel. But the reason why buses are tall is…when you step inside the bus…you [...]
April 3, 2007
Been in this situation at public toilets like office, hotels, theatres,etc ? Trying to knock, push and open a door which is occupied…?Little embarrassing. I noticed that our office Toilet room has a clever knob.When you get inside and lock, the rotation of the knob brings up “Engaged” display outside.When you unlock and come out [...]
March 28, 2007
Am very bad with conversions. Very lazy.But am equally fond of approximations. That saves a lot of brain energy for better purposes. Just to illustrate this…This one is for Bytes to MB conversions. Most of our unix systems display the file sizes in Bytes and it takes few seconds to figure out and get a [...]
March 5, 2007
I noticed this morning, in a four wheeler, that that the gear shifting lever can be moved to some other placeIn the Sumo transport vehicle, the driver enjoys more width than he actually require.This extra width is provided by that gear lever.If you move that to a place somewhere else… ( I don’t know where, [...]
January 23, 2007
At Petrol pumps they have this FREE AIR facility. Air pumps got this lengthy pipe to reach to the tyres. Since 2, 3 and 4 wheelers have different requirements for air pressures on front and back wheels,Air-filler person has to get up and go back and forth to adjust the pressures at the panel. It’s [...]
October 28, 2006
Here’s a nice hack to search file type on google.power electronics applications filetype:pdfpower electronics applications filetype:ppt
September 7, 2006
Guitar,Table Tennis and CDMA – Some insights on learning I am pursuing all the three. In parallel. I spend some 15-20 minutes on guitar. 30 mins on TT and nearly an hour on CDMA. Almost everyday. I was not even close to the average level in any of these. Guitar at my home was lying [...]
March 16, 2006
I crossed this hand made presentation slides here.I always wanted to make ones like this one… I liked this final slide which I have put up here.“We will not need the distinction of web,we will just have the data,the people and that which unites the two”
February 28, 2006
Just like in yahoo messenger…where I can see whether the person is available/out for dinner/At office and busy…how about looking up the address book of my cell phone to find out what is my buddy upto ?
November 2, 2009
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